Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Babb, Dr. Emerson M., 1982 

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DR. EMERSON MACAULAY BABB 

   IVOR - A funeral service for Dr. Emerson MaCaulay Babb, 85, was held 
at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield, with burial in 
Ivor Cemetery. 

   Pallbearers were E.V. Stephenson Jr., N.S. Boykins, J. Winston Camp, 
J.T. Faircloth Jr., Herman W. Wade, A. Meredith Felts, Robert H. Pulley, 
T. Russell West, Woodroy Moore, Paul Brantley, Jack Lowe. 

   Babb died Saturday in a Richmond hospital following a long illness. 

   A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of Virginia Smith 
Babb.  He had practiced medicine in Ivor for 44 years. 

   He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia 
and interned at Grace and Stuart Circle hospitals in Richmond before 
returning to Ivor, where he practiced from 1924 to 1968. 

   Babb was a veteran of World War I and II.  During the second war, he 
commanded a hospital train in Europe.  After the war, he did postgraduate 
training in Chicago and New York before resuming his practice. 

   He also was a former staff member of the Louise Obici Memorial Hospital 
in Suffolk.  Following his retirement from active medical practice, he 
moved to Richmond, where he lived for a number of years. 

   Other survivors include a daughter, Rosalyn B. Cox of Salem; and three 
sons, Emerson M. Babb of West Lafayette, Ind., Dr. John R. Babb of Beaumont, 
Texas, and Paul C. Babb of Richmond; a sister, Isle B. Wood of Petersburg; 
and 10 grandchildren. 

   Memorial donations may be made to Ivor Rescue Squad or a favorite charity. 


Dr. Emerson MaCaulay BABB, physican, veteran of WW-I & WW-II, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 18 Dec 1982, Richmond, age 85, 
interred in Ivor Cemetery*, 21 Dec 1982, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 23, 1982, p. 9A 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Ivor list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/ivor.txt 

A photographic portrait is posted with his Find A Grave Memorial, #99634409. 

His parents are buried in a BABB family cemetery on the Berlin-Dory road. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-9): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 26, 1920, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b100j1ob.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

file at: 
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